Literary Devices Flashcards
Enjambment
the running on of the thought from one line, couplet, or stanza to the next without a syntactical break.
Rhyme scheme
the pattern of rhymes used in a poem, usually marked by letters to symbolize correspondences
End stopped line
An end-stopped line is a feature in poetry in which the syntactic unit (phrase, clause, or sentence) corresponds in length to the line.
(Enjambment is the opposite)
Free verse
poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.
Blank verse
verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter.
Foot
A foot is a unit of metre, consisting of a combination of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Stanza
an arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem.
Rhyme
correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.
End rhyme
when a poem has lines ending with words that sound the same
Internal rhyme
a rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next.
Slant rhyme
(known also as half-rhyme or imperfect rhyme) refers to words that almost rhyme, or appear to the eye to do so
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Onomatopoeia
the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
Alliteration
the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
Consonance
repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase
Assonance
the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible
